[GeoNode-users] Geonode and Django Content Management System

Fri Jun 24 23:49:04 PDT 2016

Thanks for the feedback Ariel & Paolos,

Some thoughts on Mezzanine vs Wagtail vs DjangoCMS. I selected DjangoCMS
because of the plugin ecosystem and large body of tutorials/videos
available to make things work with a low barrier to entry. I did look at
the others, but really this was my key evaluation criteria. For example I
wrote the geonode map plugin in a day, following this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ybHDaZFjus

So if others have more compelling technical benefits from the others, I'd
be keen to hear them. For me it was about getting something done quickly
and wanting it to "just work". Which it does.

The key uncertainty for me in integrating them will be geonode's custom
auth system for talking with geoserver - not an area I'm really familiar
with.

I'll let you know if this gets to top of backlog and will share the
outcomes here.

Dave

David Kennewell
Water Resources Engineer
Hydrata.com
+971 55 409 7378
david.kennewell at hydrata.com

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> Some months ago I gave a look at Django CMS as well, and I believe it
> would be incredibly useful to have in Django CMS addons to publish as
> CMS contents the GeoNode layers and maps. Not sure how easy it is to
> implement, though and I had not enough time to investigate.
> Make sure to share your results with all of us :)
> p
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Paolo Pasquali
> <paolo.pasquali at ithaca.polito.it> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > We are going to integrate a CMS into GeoNode for one of our projects.
> > I have some experience with Mezzanine CMS but I was able to share the Db
> > only with GeoNode.
> > We are evaluating Wagtail also, but Django CMS seems the most likely
> > candidate for us. So I would be more than happy to collaborate.
> > As soon as I made some test with Django CMS I will come back to you.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> > On gio 23 giu 2016 at 19:17, Ariel Nunez <ingenieroariel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey David,
> >>
> >> I don't have any particular feedback but thanks for sharing! Looking
> >> forward to being able to add a CMS as a contrib app easily in GeoNode.
> >>
> >> -a
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:53 AM, David Kennewell
> >> <david.kennewell at hydrata.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi there Geonode users,
> >>>
> >>> I wanted to share a few developments we've made with Geonode and
> >>> DjangoCMS, and learn if there are others in the community headed in
> this
> >>> direction.
> >>>
> >>> For those not familiar with django-cms it's a tool that allows users to
> >>> edit and publish content directly to a website through their browser.
> No
> >>> coding or web developer required. A typical usecase would be a
> reporting
> >>> publishing an article to her newspaper website.
> >>>
> >>> I've been working with an NGO in Chennai,India to improve the
> >>> accessibility of their work around flood management, and have found
> the CMS
> >>> a really useful tool to merge reports and Geonode spatial data
> together in a
> >>> way that readers can engage with. Here's an example:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://chennaifloodmanagement.org/en/projects/cag-flood-inundation-mapping/
> >>>
> >>> To achieve this outcome, there's basically two steps. I'd be interested
> >>> in collaborating with anyone who would like to get involved in either
> of
> >>> these.
> >>>
> >>> 1. Integrating Geonode with DjangoCMS
> >>> Current status:
> >>> I've bolted these two together with sticky tape and paper glue to
> >>> demonstrate what might be possible on the Chennai project :) Currently
> I'm
> >>> running two separate servers & databases, with hardcoded links in each
> >>> project to make it look like it's all talking to each other. Apart
> from the
> >>> dev headache, major drawback here is that users need two django
> accounts,
> >>> one for editing reports in CMS and another for geonode. Yuk.
> >>>
> >>> Desired status:
> >>> Integrate DjangoCMS as an app under geonode. Now that geonode is
> running
> >>> on Django 1.8 this is should be possible. If I do go down this path (we
> >>> still need some decent traction here to justify it) I'd really
> appreciate
> >>> some guidance on how to do this in a manner that allows both easy
> >>> integration for other projects, but acknowledges that this isn't the
> core
> >>> use-case for geonode, so should be an optional extra (in my opinion).
> >>>
> >>> 2. Authoring geonode maps within DjangoCMS content editor.
> >>> Once you're geonode/CMS webapp is up and running, your users still need
> >>> to be able to publish geonode maps from the CMS editor. I've written a
> >>> plugin to enable this. Once again, it's bare-bones, but it works and
> we find
> >>> it useful. I've pushed the code to github here:
> >>> https://github.com/Hydrata/geonode_cms_map
> >>> I'd be happy to write an install doc for this, but that's probably not
> >>> useful until I resolve the above integration issues. Until then it's a
> >>> manual deploy - feel free to reach out if you would like guidance and
> we can
> >>> work through together - I'm sure I'd learn something from this too.
> >>>
> >>> That's it from me for now, I'd love to hear any similar stories or
> >>> use-cases that might help guide this development in a way that's
> useful for
> >>> all.
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>>
> >>> David Kennewell
> >>> Water Resources Engineer
> >>> Hydrata.com
> >>> +971 55 409 7378
> >>> david.kennewell at hydrata.com
> >>> https://ae.linkedin.com/in/davekennewell
> >>>
> >>>
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